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<span id="id1"></span><h1>Glossary<a class="headerlink" href="#glossary" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
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<dt id="term-asciimath">AsciiMath</dt>
<dd><p class="first">A notation for mathematics that uses characters commonly
available on all computer keyboards to represent the math in
an algebra-like syntax that should be intuitive and easily
read.</p>
<div class="admonition-see-also last admonition seealso">
<p class="first admonition-title">See also</p>
<p class="last"><a class="reference external" href="http://www1.chapman.edu/~jipsen/mathml/asciimath.html">AsciiMath home page</a></p>
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</dd>
<dt id="term-callback">Callback</dt>
<dd>A JavaScript function that is used to perform actions that
must wait for other actions to complete before they are
performed.</dd>
<dt id="term-callback-queue">Callback Queue</dt>
<dd>MathJax uses <cite>Queues</cite> to synchronize its activity so that
actions that operate asynchronously (like loading files) will
be performed in the right order.  <a class="reference internal" href="#term-callback"><em class="xref std std-term">Callback</em></a> functions
are pushed onto the queue, and are performed in order, with
MathJax handling the synchronization if operations need to
wait for other actions to finish.</dd>
<dt id="term-callback-signal">Callback Signal</dt>
<dd>A JavaScript object that acts as a mailbox for MathJax events.
Like an event handler, but it also keeps a history of
messages.  Your code can register an &#8220;interest&#8221; in a signal,
or can register a <a class="reference internal" href="#term-callback"><em class="xref std std-term">callback</em></a> to be called when a
particular message is sent along the signal channel.</dd>
<dt id="term-html-css">HTML-CSS</dt>
<dd>MathJax output form that relys only on HTML and CSS 2.1,
allowing MathJax to remain compatible across all browsers.</dd>
<dt id="term-jax">jax</dt>
<dd>MathJax&#8217;s input and output processors are called &#8220;jax&#8221;, as is
its internal format manager.  The code for the jax are in the
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">MathJax/jax</span></tt> directory.</dd>
<dt id="term-latex">LaTeX</dt>
<dd><p class="first">LaTeX is a variant of <a class="reference internal" href="#term-tex"><em class="xref std std-term">TeX</em></a> that is now the dominant TeX style.</p>
<div class="admonition-see-also last admonition seealso">
<p class="first admonition-title">See also</p>
<p class="last"><a class="reference external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX">LaTeX Wikipedia entry</a></p>
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</dd>
<dt id="term-markdown">Markdown</dt>
<dd><p class="first">A text format commonly used in blogs and wikis for creating
web pages without the need for complicated markup notation.
It is intended to be an easy-to-read and easy-to-write format
that still gives you the ability to specify a rich text result
(including things like bold, italics, bullet lists, and so
on).</p>
<div class="admonition-see-also last admonition seealso">
<p class="first admonition-title">See also</p>
<p class="last"><a class="reference external" href="http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/">Markdown home page</a></p>
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</dd>
<dt id="term-mathml">MathML</dt>
<dd><p class="first">An XML specification created to describe mathematical
notations and capture both its structure and content. MathML
is much more verbose than <a class="reference internal" href="#term-tex"><em class="xref std std-term">TeX</em></a>, but is much more
machine-readable.</p>
<div class="admonition-see-also last admonition seealso">
<p class="first admonition-title">See also</p>
<p class="last"><a class="reference external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MathML">MathML Wikipedia entry</a></p>
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</dd>
<dt id="term-stix">STIX</dt>
<dd><p class="first">The Scientific and Technical Information Exchange font
package. A comprehensive set of scientific glyphs.</p>
<div class="admonition-see-also last admonition seealso">
<p class="first admonition-title">See also</p>
<p class="last"><a class="reference external" href="http://stixfonts.org/">STIX project</a></p>
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</dd>
<dt id="term-svg">SVG</dt>
<dd><p class="first">Acronym for <cite>Scalable Vector Graphics</cite>.  SVG is a graphics
format that allows images to be described as a collection of
graphics objects (like lines, rectangles, etc) rather than as
a bitmap of colored pixels.  MathJax can use this format to
display mathematics as an alterantive to its HTML-CSS or
NativeMML output.</p>
<div class="admonition-see-also last admonition seealso">
<p class="first admonition-title">See also</p>
<p class="last"><a class="reference external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Vector_Graphics">SVG Wilipedia entry</a></p>
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</dd>
<dt id="term-tex">TeX</dt>
<dd><p class="first">A document markup language with robust math markup commands
developed by Donald Knuth in the late 1970&#8217;s, but still in
extensive use today.  It became the industry standard for
typesetting of mathematics, and is one of the most common
formats for mathematical journals, articles, and books.</p>
<div class="admonition-see-also last admonition seealso">
<p class="first admonition-title">See also</p>
<p class="last"><a class="reference external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX">TeX Wikipedia entry</a></p>
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